The Moated Mountain by Showell Styles

He became a prolific writer with over 160 books publi Aka Glyn Carrįrank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer. His first novel, Traitor’s Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out to make his living as an author. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Aka Glyn Carr Frank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.